Research of investment attractiveness of European countries. Russia 2018

In 2017, foreign investors invested in 238 projects  this is a record number for Russia for the entire period of the study since 2010. Asian countries showed great interest in the Russian economy: for the first time China became the leader in the number of projects involving FDI, top ten investors also included Japan and South Korea. By the end of 2017, Western European countries showed variety of trends. In 2015 and 2016, the first place in terms of new projects was occupied by Germany. However, in 2017 the number of German projects in Russia decreased to 28 (compared to 43 in 2016). The decrease in the number of new projects was also shown by France: from 20 to 11 per year. Having shown record growth in 2016, in 2017 the US reduced investment activity: the number of projects implemented decreased by half  from 38 to 19. Nevertheless, the United States took the third position in the list of the ten main countries that made FDI to Russia.

Production became the main branch of the Russian economy with the largest number of projects involving FDI. Over the past year, the number of projects in the energy sector increased by more than one and a half times  from 15 in 2016 to 26 in 2017.

The number of projects in the sphere of financial services and business services has more than doubled, from four to 10 in 2017.

According to the results of 2017, Moscow and the Moscow Region remain the most attractive for investors  54 projects are implemented there (49 in 2016). St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region hold the second place  17 projects are implemented there with the involvement of FDI, which is two more than in 2016. Regions increasingly attract investors: the Republic of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, Primorsky Krai, Lipetsk and Belgorod Regions showed have showed positive dynamics.

The fifth issue of the annual report, prepared jointly by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of International Studies of the Fudan University, offers the shared vision of Russian and Chinese experts in international affairs for continued collaboration between Russia and China in 2018 and the first quarter of 2019.

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